June 27, 2008
Black Plague In SF?
You'd think the 1,000-plus wildfires blazing across Northern California would be our biggest concern. Not so. It seems that the Black Death is yet another thing we should fear, at least according to an alarmist article in the Examiner it is. The plague, "carried by fleas, mice, rats, squirrels, cats and other animals," was uncovered on San Bruno Mountain in the 1940s. Now, just after this week's San Bruno Mountain blaze, said creatures coming down off the mountain might kills us all. Eeps! Or so we're. The 14th Century bug that wiped out 75 million people in the days or yore infects up to five Californians per year these space-age days. But now? Maybe more!!! So, how will you bring out our dead?
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Good! Too many asshats wandering the streets as it is. Humanity needs a nice, harsh culling. I've got start up capital for the first person to start a web based business devoted to disposing of the dead. Annoying flatmate with bad hygiene dead of plague? Just pop on the innerweb and order up a hipster on a moped to come round and fetch the corpse. I imagine it'll be like that old cosmo dot com, only with dead bodies and in reverse. Yay!
i do not wish for another plague to hit SF. ever.
Too late, Brock Landers. The plague of meth addiction is already raging through the streets of SF, as are the plagues of track bike riding and pseudo-bohemian art school loser being. There will always be one plague or another hitting this city, mister, and you can do nothing to stop it!
wasn't referring to meth. (i would NEVER speak that way about our pal the upper!) i was referring to the HIV. (which i know is not a "plague," etc., etc.)
Nobody dies from the plague any more because it's easily treated with common antibiotics.
naysayer!
It's not even really contractable from person to person. We'd have to be sleeping on rattresses to really get it going.
This lack of headlines is totally lame. What's the matter, the blog can't spare another inch of space? Fight the power, Brock!